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we are just real real happy to be here

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at the kennedy space center we're really

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looking forward to our uh

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our dress rehearsal for launch our

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our tcdt

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after arriving at the kennedy space

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center the seven-member crew of the next

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space shuttle mission eagerly

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participated in a week's worth of

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training activities to prepare for their

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upcoming journey to the international

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space station

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the training called the terminal

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countdown demonstration test or tcdt

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gives the sts-131 crew and ground teams

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time to go through the simulated

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countdown activities and execute

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among those activities were dry runs

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m113s would transport astronauts to

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safety in the event of a contingency on

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the launch pad before liftoff the crew

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members also learned how to operate

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slide wire baskets which they use to

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quickly exit the space shuttle in case

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of an emergency

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discovery's sts-131 mission commander

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alan poindexter and pilot jim dutton

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will later practice landings in shuttle

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training aircraft or sta a gulfstream

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tube jet modified to simulate a

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shuttle's cockpit motion and handling

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qualities

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discovery is targeted to launch on april

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5th

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in addition to poindexter and dutton

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discovery will shuttle mission

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specialist rick mastracchio clay

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anderson dorothy metcalfe lindenberger

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stephanie wilson and japan aerospace

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exploration agency astronaut naoko

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yamazaki to the complex the mission has

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three planned spacewalks with work to

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include replacing an ammonia tank

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assembly retrieving a japanese

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experiment from the station's exterior

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and switching out a rape gyro assembly